From the board design viewpoint, there is no impact.
If the designer is responsible for creating the panelized artwork to send to
a fab shop, they more than likely have the capability to rotate, copy, or
mirror the image with their current post-processing tools. A board fab shop
would already have the software to create a panelized gerber themselves.
Be sure the fab shop and your assembly house know each others requirements
so that the panel will be something the assembly house can use.
There should be no additional cost incurred, and your fab house is probably
already doing this for other customers.
I believe the assembly house should be able to read in a single image
insertion file and manipulate the data to correspond to the panel layout.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tempea, Ioan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:16 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [TN] Flip-flop panels


Hi Technos,

I want to elaborate on an idea I gto from Technet some time ago. Steve Z was
talking about panelizing boards so that the adjoining boards are flipped one
with respect to the other. One stencil, one setup, one insertion program,
etc.

I am considering implementing it, since we have some piggy backs that would
be well suited for.

What I would really appreciate is your experienced inputs on:
what does this imply at the board house level (cost rise?, special
software?)
what does this imply at the PCB design level
any hints on how to use Fujicam to program the insertion machines
any other considerations

Thanks,
Ioan

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